Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet
El 18/03/2010, a las 20:32, Michael Witten escribió:
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> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 14:07, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>> And if it doesn't have meaning, then it's just
>> annoying and will never ever be attached to
>> anything relevant long-term.
>
> You've actually just described the current name/email system.
>
> What a uuid provides is that very property of long-term attachment; a
> git user can change the name/email pair but keep the same uuid.
>
> You see, the problem is that the name/email pair isn't really an
> identifier; it's actually just info about the user's current email
> account, which is very useful for everyday workflow, but pretty naive
> for historical identification over long periods of time.
This whole thing is a stupid idea.
If users can't even be bothered keeping a stable email address, what makes you think that they can be assed "doing the right thing" with respect to a meaningless UUID string?
The idea is complicated, over-engineered, brings no benefit and adds only cruft.
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Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>